The Changing Languages of Europe

Bernd Heine is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the Institute of African Studies, University of Cologne. His 33 books include Auxiliaries: Cognitive forces and grammaticalization (OUP USA, 1993); Cognitive Foundations of Grammar (OUP USA, 1997); Possession: Cognitive sources, forces, and grammaticalization (CUP, 1997); and, with Derek Nurse, African Languages: An introduction (CUP, 2000).Tania Kuteva is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Dusseldorf and author of Auxiliation: An enquiry into the nature of grammaticalization (OUP, 2001).Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva are the joint authors of World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (CUP, 2002) and Language Contact and Grammatical Change (CUP, 2005).

• 1. Europe as a Linguistic Area ; 2. Grammatical Replication ; 3. The Rise of Articles ; 4. The Rise of Possessive Perfects ; 5. From Comitative to Instrumental Forms ; 6. From Question to Clause Subordination ; 7. Europe's Periphery ; 8. Conclusions ; References ; Glossary ; Subject Index ; List of Maps

This excellent monograph offers an insightful study in which European languages have influenced each other in their grammar...[a] richly documented and convinvingly argued book.